Comments

Comm. NT: 42.
Anulomañāṇakathāvaṇṇanā

‘Maintaining the continuity of consciousness’ by absence of interruption, in other words, of occurrence of dissimilar consciousness.
For when the life-continuum [which is mind-consciousness element] is displaced by the functional mind element [of five- door adverting (70)], the occurrence of the functional consciousness makes an interruption, an interval, between the occurrence of the resultant consciousness [i.e. the life-continuum and the consciousness that follows]. But this is not so with mind- door adverting (71) [which is mind-consciousness element].

See Table V, Cognitive Series.

пали	Tato bhavaṅgaṃ āvaṭṭetvā uppannassa tassa kiriyacittassānantaraṃ avīcikaṃ cittasantatiṃ anuppabandhamānaṃ tatheva saṅkhāre ārammaṇaṃ katvā uppajjati paṭhamaṃ javanacittaṃ, yaṃ parikammanti vuccati.
Nyanamoli thera	Then next to the functional [adverting] consciousness that arose displacing the life-continuum, the first impulsion consciousness arises making formations its object in the same way, maintaining the continuity of consciousness.42 This is called the “preliminary work.”